{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p007-p009","extent":"range","passage_number":7,"through":9,"paragraph_count":3,"first_locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p007","last_locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"Lecture V","date":"1916-02-08","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Pauline Wehrle","identified_edition":"AP1988","book_title":"Necessity and Freedom","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA166/English/AP1988/19160208p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Thus what is expressed in the word *I* is a true act of will, and the mental picture we have of the *I* is a reflection that arises when our will impinges on our body. This impact is just like looking into the mirror and seeing our physical body. Thus we see our own *I* as an expression of will through its effect on the body. This gives us our mental image of the *I*. Therefore, on the physical plane the *I* lives as an act of will.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":188,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/166/1916-02-08/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Pauline Wehrle","identified_edition":"AP1988","book_title":"Necessity and Freedom","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA166/English/AP1988/19160208p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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We know of our physical body because we can picture it with our observation outside in space; and we know of our *I* through the fact that we can will. Everything else underlying the physical body cannot at first be discovered through physical observation. We can see how the physical body has developed and what it is composed of. Yet the description we have to give of this composition in the course of our passage through the Saturn, sun, moon, and earth evolutions remains a mystery if we consider the physical body only. Everything underlying the physical body is a mystery to physical observation in the physical world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/166/1916-02-08/p008","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Pauline Wehrle","identified_edition":"AP1988","book_title":"Necessity and Freedom","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA166/English/AP1988/19160208p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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Therefore, Schopenhauer[^1] regarded the will as the only reality, because he had an inkling that in the will we actually become conscious of ourselves. But of how this will enters into us we know nothing at all on the physical plane. On the basis of the physical world, we know only that in our *I* we can take hold of our will. I pick up this watch, but how this act of will passes through the etheric body into the physical body and actually turns into a picking up of the watch remains a mystery even for the physical body. The will descends straight from the *I* into the physical body. 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Dieses, daß wir wollen können, das macht uns aufmerksam darauf, daß wir ein Ich sind. Der Schlaf besteht nur darin, daß wir alles Wollen herabgedämpft haben, daß wir eben während des Schlafes durch Gründe, die wir ja oftmals besprochen haben, nicht wollen können. Da ist also das Wollen herabgedämpft, herabgelähmt. Wir wollen nicht während des Schlafes. Was sich also ausdrückt in dem Worte Ich, das ist ein wirklicher Willensakt, und dasjenige, was wir vorstellen über das Ich, das ist Spiegelbild, das dadurch entsteht, daß das Wollen anschlägt an den Leib. Dieses Anschlagen, das ist geradeso, wie wenn wir, in den Spiegel schauend, unseren physischen Leib sehen. So sehen wir unser eigenes Ich, sich aussprechendes Wollen, von unserem physischen Leib zurückwirken. Das gibt uns die Vorstellung des Ich. Das Ich lebt also auf dem physischen Plane als ein Willensakt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":189,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p007"},{"locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"So haben wir eigentlich Zweiheit auf dem physischen Plane: wir haben unseren physischen Leib, und wir haben unser Ich. Den physischen Leib haben wir dadurch, daß wir ihn durch die Anschauung vorstellen können außen im Raume; das Ich haben wir dadurch, daß wir wollen können. Alles übrige, das hinter dem physischen Leibe steht, bleibt uns zunächst für die physische Betrachtung ein Geheimnis. Wir sehen den physischen Leib, wie er entstanden ist, wie er sich zusammengefügt hat. Wir wir dieses Zusammenfügen beschreiben müssen durch das Durchgehen des Menschen durch die Saturn-, Sonnen-, Monden- und Erdenzeit, das bleibt Geheimnis, wenn man nur den physischen Leib anschaut. Also, was hinter diesem physischen Leibe ist, bleibt zunächst für die physische Betrachtung der physischen Welt Geheimnis.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":121,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p008"},{"locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Wie der Wille untertaucht auf der anderen Seite in unseren physischen Leib hinein oder in alles, was wir überhaupt sind, das bleibt wieder Geheimnis. Denn, nicht wahr, des Willens können Sie sich bewußt werden, und Schopenhauer hat deshalb im Willen das einzig Wirkliche gesehen, weil er zu der Ahnung gekommen ist, daß man im Willen eigentlich seiner selbst bewußt wird. Aber wie dieser Wille untertaucht, davon weiß man auf dem physischen Plane gar nichts. Vom physischen Plane wissen Sie im Grunde genommen nur, daß Sie in ihrem Ich den Willen fassen können. Ich ergreife diese Uhr, aber wie dieser Wille übergeht durch den Ätherleib hinunter in den physischen Leib und dann wirklich zu der Handlung des Uhr-Ergreifens wird, das bleibt für den physischen Leib selbst ein Geheimnis. Der Wille taucht also von dem Ich gleich in den physischen Leib hinein. Es bleibt im Ich nichts anderes vorhanden als das innere Erspüren des Willens, das innere Erleben des Willens.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":158,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p009"}],"beads":[{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}